Oh wow! I didn’t know that the World Book encyclopedia was still in print! This is the exact brand of encyclopedia that I grew up with and exactly why I started contributing to @wikipedia in 2002.
(The World Book was such an influence on me that I emulated their infobox style in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Makati&oldid=1704277)
(I also adored their companion Childcraft set; the Mathemagic volume was the very reason I grew up to love #math
Wow, cool! My family had the 1976 edition I think. We got a "Year Book" supplement each year. It helped me out a lot during elementary school!
@seav 😍, I'm sure that's a common story among plenty of editors
Fun fact, you used to be able to visually browse #Wikipedia as if it were split up into an alphabetically sorted paper encyclopedia
https://web.archive.org/web/20130425013644/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AllPages
(un)fortunately the English Wikipedia grew large enough that it no longer scaled at the database layer and was disabled: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58840#615166
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